The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything what you do is Leadership, if you are OK being number 2 from time to time.

Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

We want to raise the art of living well.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)